Protocol Labs
R&D
About
Focus Areas
Research
Team
Blog
Collaborate
Menu
About
Focus Areas
Digital Human Rights
Economies & Governance
AI & Robotics
Neurotech
Research
Talks
Publications
Tutorials
Team
Blog
Talks
Presentations and lectures from conferences and events around the world.
F3 and GossipBFT: Fast finality on longest-chain protocols
ETHDenver 2024 · Denver, CO, USA · 2024
Janus and Granite
Protocol Labs R&D Talks · 2023
Scalable asynchronous randomized byzantine agreement
Randomness Summit 2023 · Tokyo, Japan · 2023
tlock: Practical timelock encryption based on threshold BLS
Real World Crypto 23 · Tokyo, Japan · 2023
A metaverse of walled gardens?
WIPO Conversation on Intellectual Property and the Metaverse · Genève, Switzerland · 2023
Interplanetary Consensus: Now playing in Eudico near you
ConsensusLab Summit · Lisbon, Portugal · 2022
Interplanetary Consensus: Scaling blockchains with subnets in an easy-to-trust model
ConsensusLab Summit · Lisbon, Portugal · 2022
Applications of Interplanetary Consensus
ConsensusLab Summit · Lisbon, Portugal · 2022
Realising web3: 15 months of ConsensusLab
ConsensusLab Summit · Lisbon, Portugal · 2022
Building modular and scalable BFT consensus using the Mir framework
ConsensusLab Summit · Lisbon, Portugal · 2022
Unexpected consensus? The possible futures of the Filecoin network
ConsensusLab Summit · Lisbon, Portugal · 2022
dOnlyFans
ConsensusLab Summit · Lisbon, Portugal · 2022
Blockchain meets concurrency: Scaling FVM with multi-threaded execution
ConsensusLab Summit · Lisbon, Portugal · 2022
Timelock encryption based on drand
Protocol Labs R&D Talks · 2022
A dead man’s full-yet-responsible-disclosure system
DEFCON 30 · Las Vegas, NV, USA · 2022
IPFS network measurements and improvement opportunities
Paris P2P Festival · Paris, France · 2022
drand: Publicly verifiable randomness explained
May Contain Hackers 2022 · Zeewolde, The Netherlands · 2022
Private access to decentralized data
EthCC 5 · Paris, France · 2022
Hierarchical consensus: A horizontal scaling framework for blockchains
ConsensusFactory · 2022
Hierarchical consensus project update
ConsensusLab 22Q2 Team Week · Dubai, UAE · 2022
Tendermint subnet consensus project update
ConsensusLab 22Q2 Team Week · Dubai, UAE · 2022
Bitcoin checkpointing project update
ConsensusLab 22Q2 Team Week · Dubai, UAE · 2022
Parallel execution project update
ConsensusLab 22Q2 Team Week · Dubai, UAE · 2022
Filecoin hierarchical consensus
Protocol Labs R&D Talks · 2022
The importance of consensus R&D breakthroughs
ConsensusDays 21 · 2021
A vision for ConsensusLab and decentralized computing
ConsensusDays 21 · 2021
Securing membership and state checkpoints of BFT and PoS blockchains by anchoring onto the Bitcoin blockchain
ConsensusDays 21 · 2021
Private attacks in longest chain PoS protocols with single secret leader election
Protocol Labs R&D Talks · 2021
IPFS-FAN: A function addressible computation network
DI2F · Espoo, Finland · 2021
Protocol Labs: First principles thinking - history of finance & Filecoin
HackMoney 2021 · 2021
HyperDrive deep dive
· 2021
Scaling zkSNARKs to meet the demands of Filecoin
ETH Global Scaling via Zero-Knoweldge Summit · 2021
More than just storage: Business opportunities on Filecoin
Web3 Weekend · 2021
SoK: Tools for game theoretic models of security for cryptocurrencies
Protocol Labs R&D Talks · 2021
Beyond swapping bits
Protocol Labs R&D Talks · 2021
Winkle: a decentralized checkpointing for proof-of-stake systems
Protocol Labs R&D Talks · 2021
Verifiable computation on encrypted data
Protocol Labs R&D Talks · 2021
The Underlay: A distributed public knowledge graph
Protocol Labs R&D Talks · 2021
The Inter-Cranial Abstraction System (ICAS)
Protocol Labs R&D Talks · 2021
Filecoin Circulating Supply
Storage Markets Summit · 2020
Filecoin Economy Deep Dive
Storage Markets Summit · 2020
Enabling plug and play transactive energy on legacy power grids
IEEE TESC 2020 · 2020
A Technical Dive Into Filecoin’s Tokeneconomics
The Delphi Podcast · 2020
The Filecoin Storage Economy
Filecoin Liftoff Week · 2020
Vector commitment techniques and applications to verifiable decentralized storage
Theory and Practice of Blockchains 2020 · 2020
Decentralized energy grid: A Protocol Labs independent research project
Protocol Labs R&D Talks · 2020
Drand: Distributed, bias resistant, unpredictable and publicly verifiable randomness
Protocol Labs R&D Talks · 2020
Dioptics: A common generalization of open games and gradient-based learners
SYCO 5 · Birmingham, UK · 2019
Single secret leader election
ConsensusDay 1 · Stanford, CA, USA · 2019
Mergeable consensus
ConsensusDay 1 · Stanford, CA, USA · 2019
Expected consensus
ConsensusDay 1 · Stanford, CA, USA · 2019
Consensus hierarchies
ConsensusDay 1 · Stanford, CA, USA · 2019
New directions in consensus
ConsensusDay 1 · Stanford, CA, USA · 2019
Developing an open source energy trading protocol
Lab Day 2018 · San Francisco, CA, USA · 2018
PoReps: Proof of space on real data
Lab Day 2018 · San Francisco, CA, USA · 2018
IPLD research and future directions
Lab Day 2018 · San Francisco, CA, USA · 2018
The Underlay: The inevitable future of knowledge
Lab Day 2018 · San Francisco, CA, USA · 2018
Protocol Labs R&D Overview
IPFS and libp2p Developers Meetings · Berlin, Germany · 2018
Good SNARKs are here needed
Zcon0 · Montréal, Canada · 2018
The Protocol Labs RFP Program
IPFS and libp2p Developers Meetings · Lisbon, Portugal · 2018
VDFs and Filecoin
VDF Day · Stanford, CA, USA · 2018